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“She smiled and congratulated them. She beamed with apparently the same pleasure as Charlie when Jem looked at his bride-to-be in what Tilly privately considered a disgustingly mawkish manner and she looked back at him in what Tilly interpreted, much more sinisterly, as a possessive manner. She was angry and hurt and, worst of all, she knew that she was being totally unjust.
She accepted a second glass of ratafia, though she managed to refuse the biscuits, a new purchase of which Charlie was ino...rdinately proud, and listened with all the interest she could pretend as Jem and his Fanny prattled on about seeking a house and a new shop in one of the quieter and pleasanter London suburbs, and tried to be pleased for them. She failed totally.
‘We thought of Holloway,’ Jem said. ‘It’s most green and charming and there are many handsome new houses and excellent shop properties there. We should deal very comfortably.’ ‘But your shop here,’ Tilly managed to say through rather stiff lips.MoreLess
She accepted a second glass of ratafia, though she managed to refuse the biscuits, a new purchase of which Charlie was ino...rdinately proud, and listened with all the interest she could pretend as Jem and his Fanny prattled on about seeking a house and a new shop in one of the quieter and pleasanter London suburbs, and tried to be pleased for them. She failed totally.
‘We thought of Holloway,’ Jem said. ‘It’s most green and charming and there are many handsome new houses and excellent shop properties there. We should deal very comfortably.’ ‘But your shop here,’ Tilly managed to say through rather stiff lips.MoreLess
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